Cell phone fine

[Resident Loser]

Resident Loser, I drive a lot for my job. Speed is not the issue on the roads. Using your signals when changing lanes is what causes the most problems. My other issue with drivers on the road is slow people in the left lane. When all cars that want to go faster in the left lane have to constantly change lanes around slower drivers *, this causes more potential for accidents then cars moving faster. Look the the Autobahn in Germany, they do not have more accidents than on the LIE.

...what happens when, while observing the speed limit, you want to pass a car for whatever reason, you signal and enter the left lane, you know... the passing lane...and in the middle of doing it some dipwad screaming out of nowhere is on your @$$ flashing his lights, fully expecting you to get out of his way? Sorry spitball, I don't get back to the right until...until I see the passed-vehicle's front end completely in my rear-view mirror...it's called proper passing procedure, a space cushion...and I certainly don't speed up above the posted limit to comply either...and then the p!$$pot flips me the bird! I guess that's why I've had only two accidents in my forty years of driving and one of them involved rolling my CJ-7 while off-road...

Familiar with the LIE, maybe the Northern State...Travel east just before the Meadowbrook, watch the freakshow particularly in the twisty area where the signs say "Stay In Lane"...or when they cut from the extreme left, over four lanes of traffic to hit said Meadowbrook...

*Faster? Faster than what...the so-called "slower drivers" doing the 55mph (or otherwise posted) limit?

jimHJJ(...Yeah, my fault...)

[GMichael]

...what happens when, while observing the speed limit, you want to pass a car for whatever reason, you signal and enter the left lane, you know... the passing lane...and in the middle of doing it some dipwad screaming out of nowhere is on your @$$ flashing his lights, fully expecting you to get out of his way? Sorry spitball, I don't get back to the right until...until I see the passed-vehicle's front end completely in my rear-view mirror...it's called proper passing procedure, a space cushion...and I certainly don't speed up above the posted limit to comply either...and then the p!$$pot flips me the bird! I guess that's why I've had only two accidents in my forty years of driving and one of them involved rolling my CJ-7 while off-road...

Familiar with the LIE, maybe the Northern State...Travel east just before the Meadowbrook, watch the freakshow particularly in the twisty area where the signs say "Stay In Lane"...or when they cut from the extreme left, over four lanes of traffic to hit said Meadowbrook...

*Faster? Faster than what...the so-called "slower drivers" doing the 55mph (or otherwise posted) limit?

jimHJJ(...Yeah, my fault...)

Move over will ya? Can't you see that I'm late to pick up my Sammy Hagar CD?

[Resident Loser]

Move over will ya? Can't you see that I'm late to pick up my Sammy Hagar CD?

...sad but true, that's about it...

More people need to see "Signal 30" and partake of the Smith Defensive Driving System...

jimHJJ(...or be shot on sight...)

[Fergymunster]

I look at it this way.Anyone who is 21 years old or 75 years old has a so called license.They get it by passing a test that any idiot can figure out.In some cases it takes 3 or more trys but ultimitally you'll get the license.As for truck drivers the rules are more stringent.Now you put these people on roads and what the heck do you think going to happen. EX:A person who is lets say is 75 is probably going to go slow.A person who is 21 with one foot in the grave we'll go his pace.Now you through in the different personalites in to the mix.i.e corvettes,hummers,porches etc...Is it any wonder we have the problems we do.Oh and gas prices, only adds full to the fire.

[Sir Terrence the Terrible]

Alot of folks here in the Bay Area already have wireless headphone sets, and talk on them while driving. It doesn't make them a safer driver than a person holding a cellphone. It just enables them to keep both hands on the wheel, but they are stil distracted and dangerous.

Pedestrians here do not have a chance against these cellphone welding idiots. I have been almost run over too many times by cellphone users, headsets and all.

I hate cellphones to the upmost, but must carry one for work. I hate using the bluetooth because it makes you look like you are from Star Trek, though the blackberry has come in handy on a few situations. If I didn't have to own any of these, I wouldn't. I personally have heard far to much private details about folk that I prefer not to hear. The worst was listening to a girl talk about her boyfriend beating the crap outta her after being caught with here lesbian lover in bed while in the grocery store line. People tend to talk on cellphones like they were at home in their bedrooms seemingly unaware that they are talking loud enough for others to hear. Ban the technology if you ask me!

[Fergymunster]

Alot of folks here in the Bay Area already have wireless headphone sets, and talk on them while driving. It doesn't make them a safer driver than a person holding a cellphone. It just enables them to keep both hands on the wheel, but they are stil distracted and dangerous.

Pedestrians here do not have a chance against these cellphone welding idiots. I have been almost run over too many times by cellphone users, headsets and all.

I hate cellphones to the upmost, but must carry one for work. I hate using the bluetooth because it makes you look like you are from Star Trek, though the blackberry has come in handy on a few situations. If I didn't have to own any of these, I wouldn't. I personally have heard far to much private details about folk that I prefer not to hear. The worst was listening to a girl talk about her boyfriend beating the crap outta her after being caught with here lesbian lover in bed while in the grocery store line. People tend to talk on cellphones like they were at home in their bedrooms seemingly unaware that they are talking loud enough for others to hear. Ban the technology if you ask me!

Where I'm from people won't even talk to each other in person anymore,they'd rather communicate by way of cell phones.